The chart below allows comparisons of the average scores or the percentages of public school students performing at or above Basic or Proficient across all participating districts.

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Cross-district comparison of average scores in NAEP writing for Black eighth-grade public school students: 2007

NOTE: Reported differences are statistically significant at the .05 level. View complete data with standard errors in districts and the nation or in large central cities.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Trial Urban District Writing Assessment.

See more information about the writing assessment, including details about participating jurisdictions and percentages of students excluded from the assessment.